In a futuristic scenario, you are assigned the mission of making inoperative an enemy satellite that is in a circular orbit around earth. you know you cannot destroy the satellite, as it is well protected against attack. but you can try to knock it out of its orbit so it will fly away and never return. what is the minimum amount of work applied to the satellite that is required to accomplish that? the satellite's mass and altitude are 9.63 times 102 kg and 2.11 times 102 km. earth's mass and radius are 5.98 times 1024 kg and 6.37 times 103 km.

    m₁v₁ + m₂v₂ = (m₁ + m₂)vmomentum is conserved.the left-hand side of the equation represents the momentum in the system before the collision.the right-hand side represents the momentum in the system after the collisionm₁ and v₁ represents the mass and the velocity of the physics blockm₂ and v₂ represents the mass and velocity of the ball of puttyv represents the final velocity of the combined mass.the question states the two masses stick together. they combined mass has its own velocity with the body mass the sum of the two objects' massestheir combined momentum is (m₁ + m₂)vto find the magitude of (m₁ + m₂)v, we need to add the vectors on the left-hand side of the equation: m₁v₁ + m₂v₂.note the diagram. i have positioned the vectors in accordance with their directions.the magnitude of the resultant can be calculated using the pythagorean theorem since this is a right triangle situation (north and west are perpendicular)|(m₁ + m₂)v| =  √[ (m₁v₁)² + (m₂v₂)² ]|(m₁ + m₂)v| =  √[ (1.5kg·8.0m/s)² + (0.40kg·20m/s)² ]|(m₁ + m₂)v| =  14.4 kg m/sfor two significant figures (assuming that 20m/s is two), this rounds to 14 kg m/s

Ibelieve the answer is either b or c, but i'm leaning more towards c.hope my answer has you : )

Ithink the answer is d